Dialogical sign and symbolic mediation

This paper aims to look at the dialogical character of sign in Peirce, particularly with an emotional-volitional aspect of action-sign to discern how human subjects act and control themselves by virtue of symbolic mediation, representing the dialogic relation of sign. I thus examine the concept of the Peircean symbol as Thirdness, a mediator, and a genuine sign on three levels: expression, representation, interpretation. First, symbol expresses a Quality of dialogical relation between two qualities. Second, symbol represents a dialogical relation between icon being endowed with an internal character and index being endowed with a relative character, so that the symbol represents the indexical relation of the two. Third, symbol interprets the dialogical relation, which has another name of “genuine” symbol with a logical interpretant functioning as interpretative representation. In this way, symbolic mediation is incorporated with dialogic sign relation so as to attain a triadic meaning of action in self-control, thus leading to self-identity and truth. I attempt to show these characteristics of symbolic mediation by means of cinema image as metaphoric mediator, while discussing esthetic experience of the viewer

Action (physics) · Dialogic · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Indexicality · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Mediation · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database) · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics) · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · The Symbolic · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education · Psychology · Semiotics and Representation Studies · Social Psychology